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[2021-04-03 14:50:09] [Robert Garry] Genesis Code: A Thriller of the Near Future Kindle Edition by Jamie Metzl Blue Magic, the latest designer drug linked to a rash of overdoses, might explain the needle mark on the arm of a young woman found dead in her Kansas City apartment. But when _Star_ reporter Rich Azadian digs deeper, the clues point to a far more explosive story: MaryLee Stock was a special protégée of evangelical megapastor and power broker Cobalt Becker, who is poised to deliver his followers and the presidency to a firebrand right-wing senator in the next election. When Azadian sets out to prove that MaryLee's death was no accident and she may have been carrying Becker's genetically enhanced baby, the stakes become life itself. [2021-04-03 14:50:58] [Robert Garry] Eternal Sonata: A Thriller of the Near Future Paperback - October 23, 2018 In 2025 America, it's hardly news when a renowned octogenarian scientist dying of cancer disappears from a local hospice, but when _Kansas City Star_ reporter Rich Azadian begins to dig, he discovers that other elderly scientists around the world have also vanished recently--all terminally ill and receiving the same experimental treatment from a global health company. His investigation leads him to the reclusive Noam Heller, a brilliant researcher exploring new technologies to reverse-age cancer and other cells. Using revolutionary stem cell treatments and snippets of DNA from rare, immortal Arctic jellyfish, his breakthrough promises the genetic equivalent of the fountain of youth. [2021-04-03 14:51:03] [Kristian Andersen] It's interesting how all the biggest idiots are authors... I see a pattern. [2021-04-03 14:54:35] [Robert Garry] Indeed - pattern recognition - it's why you are a successful scientist. It's also the only thing that an IQ test actually measures. [2021-04-03 14:56:42] [Robert Garry] I'm wondering if the genetically enhanced baby in Metzl's novel is anything like the Captain ~America~ China that the CCP army is building. [2021-04-03 15:30:29] [Robert Garry] And - what do you think? Could Yuri-freeze your pet's head-Deigin be the inspiration for "Noam Heller, a brilliant researcher exploring new technologies to reverse-age cancer and other cells." This seems like to be too much a similarity to just be a "coincidence." [2021-04-03 15:32:16] [Eddie Holmes] That's hilarious [2021-04-03 15:39:28] [Eddie Holmes] The difference between us and Metzl is that we would all agree it is a lab escape if there were convincing scientific evidence for it [2021-04-03 15:40:26] [Kristian Andersen] Correct. And we continue to look very hard for it - it's just, well, there's nothing.... [2021-04-03 15:40:43] [Robert Garry] The problem of course is that there are :clown_face: like Asher (that Fox News interview with the Super-Soldiers above is really something to watch) that think yeah super villain virologist, Communist china, scary BSL-4 labs,